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A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year A groundbreaking reassessment of W. H. Auden's early life and poetry, shedding new light on his artistic development as well as on his shifting beliefs about political belonging in interwar England. From...

A powerful exploration of the human capacity for renewal, as seen through Shakespeare and Freud   "A compellingly readable and intelligent book. . . . Both authors write with impressive energy."--Rowan Williams, New Statesman  

A deeply personal yet broadly relevant exploration of the ephemeral life of the classic in art, from the eighteenth century to our own day

Postcolonialism has long been associated with post-nationalism. Yet, the persistence of nation-oriented literatures from within the African postcolony and its diasporas registers how dreams of national becoming endure. In this fascinating new study, Hallemeier brings together African literary...

Philosophically analyzing the work of one of the twentieth century's most popular, and peculiar, science fiction authors Despite his enduring popularity, Philip K. Dick (1928-1982)--whose short stories and novels were adapted into or influenced many major films and television shows,...

A collection of highlights from Mary Ann Caws's long, highly distinguished career writing about literature, art, and modernism.   Throughout her long, highly distinguished career writing about literature and art, Mary Ann Caws has excavated, illuminated, and...

In Fuzzy Traumas, Tyran Grillo critically examines the portrayal of companion animals in Japanese literature in the wake of the 1990s "pet boom." Blurring the binary between human and nonhuman, Grillo draws on Japanese science fiction, horror, guide-dog stories, and a...

The Equality of Flesh traces a new genealogy of equality before its formalization under liberalism. While modern ideas of equality are defined through an inner human nature, Brent Dawson argues that the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries conceptualized equality as an...

Ancient Greek comedy relied primarily on its text and words for the fulfilment of its humorous effects and aesthetic goals. In the wake of a rich tradition of previous scholarship, this volume explores a variety of linguistic materials and stylistic artifices exploited by the Greek comic poets, from...

Creatures of Attention excavates the early modern prehistory of our late modern crises of attention. At the threshold of modernity, philosophers, scientists, and poets across Europe began to see attention as the key to autonomous agency and knowledge. Recovering the...